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Let's Pretend This Never Happened

Let's Pretend This Never HappenedLawson's website, TheBloggess.com, has gone viral several times over, and here's why: She writes with a rambling irreverence that makes you wish she were...Let's Pretend This Never HappenedMemoirJenny LawsonLawson's website, TheBloggess.com, has gone viral several times over, and here's why: She writes with a rambling irreverence that makes you wish she were...2012-04-06Putnam

Lawson’s website, TheBloggess.com, has gone viral several times over, and here’s why: She writes with a rambling irreverence that makes you wish she were your best friend. But some of that charm gets lost in translation from blog to book. Lawson has great stories in Let’s Pretend This Never Happened — including several gut-busters from her feral upbringing in rural Texas and her now-famous misadventures with a giant metal chicken — but she pokes holes in what should be punchy material with distractions her new medium affords her: editor’s notes, multiple prefaces, lengthy parentheticals, and footnotes. Granted, she’s known for chattiness, but when she repeatedly jokes that you shouldn’t read the next chapter, eventually you want to listen. B